The Codex is a compilation of the winning entries, runner ups and honorable mentions. It features a color cover by the awesome Mark Allen, the winner of the Color category in the Erol Otus/Fight On/Otherworld Miniatures art contest. It also has commentary from myself and ChattyDM and blog posts that trace the genesis of the OPD and give some tips on it's usage.

The Compendium simply contains all of the contest entries - it's a whopping 28MB of one page dungeon awesomeness. You asked for all the entries, and now you have them. There's years of dungeon delving in that collection.

Why did we name it the "Hobbyist" version? Well, that's because in September, we'll have a "Professional" version that has been professionally laid out, has additional content and has the artwork provided by Avatar Art (one of our sponsors) for the top 3 winners. We didn't want to wait until then to release the Codex (we did promise end of July...) so we're providing it now.

So there you have it! Enjoy!Voting for the ENnies is from Jul 24th to Aug 1st. Please vote for Swords & Wizardry for Best Free Product - vote Truly Free!

The mongo compendium has a few minor issues (like, ahem, at least one author's name mistranscribed in the table of contents (or index or whatever you call that sidebar thing in Apple Preview)) and a page that is blank or appears so on Apple's Preview and Safari (between Tomb of Song and Temple of Corruption), but this is way, way cool despite these (very minor) glitches.

I am amazed--AMAZED--at how few of the entries appear phoned in! I had noticed this already with the ones that had been published on authors' web pages, but I figured there was a certain amount of self-selection going on there, where only the people who had put a lot of effort into their entries posted them. Almost every one of the entries here, though, feels like something that someone really put significant work into.

I contrast this with the annual Interactive Fiction competition, which I follow pretty closely. It usually attracts somewhere between 30 and 60 entries, but of those, probably between 3 and 10 in any given year were clearly haphazard at-the-last-minute-slap-something-together things. So you did wonderfully in attracting contestants who took the work seriously.

I'm sure that final particulars may vary, but I'd gladly pay $20 or so for a print copy. Coil Bound is ideal, providing the ability to lay the book flat with any given One Page Dungeon displayed in all its glory.